Alexandr Cizek

🚨 New Votap promo video just dropped! (turn sound on) Instagram video ads keep working best for us, so we’re doubling down there. This one’s new: → Built the mockups with Promo Gen (Canva still can’t do proper mockup videos 😅) → Much easier for showing the app in motion → Would honestly recommend it if you’re doing app ads Also, we’re 8 users away from 500, which still feels a bit unreal. 🤯...

🚨 New Votap promo video just dropped! (turn sound on) Instagram video ads keep working best for us, so we’re doubling down there. This one’s new: → Built the mockups with Promo Gen (Canva still can’t do proper mockup videos 😅) → Much easier for showing the app in motion → Would honestly recommend it if you’re doing app ads Also, we’re 8 users away from 500, which still feels a bit unreal. 🤯...

Our app was sh*t? Just temporarily. A bug was reported through our in-app feedback channel where some users saw an error screen when they shouldn’t have. In a few cases, people couldn’t even register. That truly sucks. As a developer, you mostly use your app in perfect conditions. Real users don’t. I’ve seen this screen once in almost a year — and it made sense then. For others, it didn’t. This...

Our app was sh*t? Just temporarily. A bug was reported through our in-app feedback channel where some users saw an error screen when they shouldn’t have. In a few cases, people couldn’t even register. That truly sucks. As a developer, you mostly use your app in perfect conditions. Real users don’t. I’ve seen this screen once in almost a year — and it made sense then. For others, it didn’t. This...

We just crossed 2,239 total votes in Votap. That’s thousands of real opinions, cast in real time — exactly what we’re trying to build here. Right now we’re: → refining our ads and creatives based on what actually converts → doubling down on what drives votes, not just installs → preparing for an important investor demo day in the Grishin Robotics accelerator Still early. Still learning. Still...

We just crossed 2,239 total votes in Votap. That’s thousands of real opinions, cast in real time — exactly what we’re trying to build here. Right now we’re: → refining our ads and creatives based on what actually converts → doubling down on what drives votes, not just installs → preparing for an important investor demo day in the Grishin Robotics accelerator Still early. Still learning. Still...

Hey everyone 👋 We wrapped up our Product Hunt launch at #13 — out of ~500 launches — and I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who checked out Votap, upvoted, commented, or followed along 🙏 Since some comments didn’t surface during the launch, I’d genuinely love to continue the conversation here. If you had a chance to try Votap (or even just explore the page): → What did you like? → What...

Yesterday we launched on Product Hunt and finished #13. Out of ~500 launches, that puts us in roughly the top 2–3%, which I’m genuinely proud of — especially with heavy hitters (even GitHub!) launching the same day and not taking the top spots. One thing that surprised me (and honestly disappointed me a bit): Product Hunt filters comments heavily. We had 60–100 people from our community —...

Tomorrow we launch on here on Product Hunt. And honestly? I’m nervous. You work on something like this every day for months. You fix bugs no one sees. You tweak details no one notices. And most days, there’s no applause. No reward. Just… more work. You only keep going if you genuinely enjoy the process. And I really do. But let’s be honest — in the back of your mind, you still hope it works....

We’re officially launching Votap on Product Hunt on February 5th. If you’ve been following this journey and the idea resonates with you, your upvote and comment on launch day would mean a lot. Why it matters: → Product Hunt puts Votap in front of thousands of early adopters → Upvotes + comments help us climb the rankings → Rankings = visibility, feedback, and momentum → Momentum helps us build...

Record day: ~50 new users in a single day. 👏 What changed? → We doubled down on Instagram video ads → We started experimenting with fun / caricature-style creatives → And we leaned fully into one rule of marketing: Ads are about attention. Not features. Not explanations. Just something that makes you stop scrolling. Once people stop, then they’re curious. Once they’re curious, then they...

The best way we’ve found to get app installs? Instagram video. Not even close. We only just started testing video creatives… and they’re already bringing in ~20 new registered users per day. Why? → Video stops the scroll → You can see the app in motion → The value clicks instantly And yes — finally a place to flex the UI a bit 😄 (static screenshots just don’t hit the same) Also… we crossed the...

90% of building a bigger app is not breaking what already works. The other 10%? Anxiety. Every change comes with that moment of silence after you ship: → Did I break onboarding? → Did votes stop syncing? → Did something subtle explode… somewhere? As a solo developer, there’s no safety net. No QA team. No one double-checking flows. Just you, production, and users. Ironically, the more stable the...

This idea lived in our heads for years before it became Votap. Back in 2017, right after Donald Trump’s unexpected election win, my co-founder Zahoor Ali was trading stocks full-time. His days were spent analyzing companies, leadership decisions, market reactions — and especially sentiment. At some point, a parallel became impossible to ignore: → Governments behave a lot like companies →...

I’m preparing for my first-ever Product Hunt launch and trying to understand how things actually work today. I’ve read a lot of mixed takes — some people say hunters still matter for reach and early momentum, others say it’s much more about the product, timing, and community than who hunts you. For context: We’re launching Votap, a mobile app that lets people vote on politicians, news, and...

I'm looking for a Product Hunt hunter 🐱 Over the last few days, we’ve been putting together everything for our Product Hunt launch: → the video → the slides → the story → the positioning For anyone new here — Votap Ltd. is an app where you can vote on politicians and news in real time, see how public opinion shifts like a market, and understand how sentiment changes day by day. Not during...

We’re a top 5 startup according to LvlUp Ventures 🏆 Didn’t expect this at all. Votap Ltd. was selected as a Top 5 finalist in the LVLUP Ventures “Operations Master” pitch competition, sponsored by Notion. The challenge was simple: → submit a sub-5-minute pitch video → no live pitching → no second chances Out of all submissions, we made the top 5. 🎉 This is a massive confidence boost for us —...